Chicago police reform activist Pat Hill has died

Hill was formerly the head of the African American Police League, which she described as “sort of like a black union, to improve the relationship between the police and the community,” in a 2016 issue of the Chicago Reader. She also served as a police officer in some of Chicago’s toughest neighborhoods.

“She was a tenacious activist who was relentless in her efforts to reform the Chicago Police Department, particularly as it relates to the African-American community,” Conrad Worrill told the Chicago Sun-Times.

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